Fit Five Friday and the Ultimate Coffee Date – Feb 2024 Edition

January has come and gone. It’s time to grab a cup of Joe or tea and catch up with each other. On the first Friday of the month, we join in on the Ultimate Coffee Date; grab a seat and share about how things are going for you!

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Ultimate Coffee Date – February 2024 Edition

Let’s have a look at how the last month has been, shall we?

If we were having coffee

First of all, I ‘d tell you that RED January is complete. The purpose of RED or originally monikered after Run Every Day, but now more about moving every day, is to bring awareness to how movement can positively effect those struggling with their mental health. And boy am I ever struggling, so, how appropriate.

I have continued my walk streak which started last year with RED and in January I moved every day, with a total of 80KM walking (that’s my base movement of choice).

I did not promote it as I usually do on social media, that tells you something for sure. It took everything I had just to complete it, and had to do 3 walks indoors as I was just too sick to get outside.

If we were having coffee

I’d tell you that running hasn’t been happening much in January, though I did manage 2 parkruns and one 5.8 kilometer run celebrating my 8 year anniversary with parkrun. Whoo Hooo!

Really hope this improves in February. In fact I hope it all improves in February!

If we were having coffee

I’d mention to you that the company I was interviewing with, that I had 3 interviews and thought was kind of a sure thing? They ghosted me.

I was pretty upset about it, but I’m slowly getting over it. It just is really unbelievable the companies can treat people this way, like candidates don’t deserve the basic decency of even a generic rejection, but hey… there’s literally nothing I can do about it.

In the meantime at my current employer they have offered to move me to a new team to solve the issue. That is rather than tackle the ACTUAL problems in the team, they want to move me to a team where I’d be more suited. On the one hand, great – the team I’d move to has more variation and would utilise my previous background and experience. On the other hand – WTF. So you don’t actually want to hold people accountable for their actions? I feel sorry for the next person who ends up working with these guys.

If we were having coffee

I’d give you a little medical update:

My neuro has prescribed me pregabalin for restless leg syndrome. It seems to help a bit but… sometimes it’s still there and still very annoying. He also had me do a sleep study; I get the results next Monday but from my own attempt at an interpretation it would seem like I have mild sleep apnea. I did a bit of reading about how to make it less and all of the tips online basically say “lose weight”, “exercise” “limit alcohol” “sleep enough”. For real. So what if you DO all those things (except losing weight since it’s impossible since you can’t sleep and likely your body is producing too much cortisol…)???

My internist has put me on metformin. He didn’t see anything that worrisome from the blood tests we did but he thought maybe this could help regulating insulin (since apparently you can have normal blood fasting sugars and still have insulin issues?) and hunger levels and that maybe it could help with weight loss. It’s early days (I’m on week 2) so we shall see.

In January I have also taken a bit of a hit with vertigo (again) and the flu. And not being super mentally stable at the moment this hasn’t helped. But the way I see it is, I have two choices: 1) Give up or 2) move on.

If we were having coffee

I would tell you it’s good to have things to look forward to! We went to Vienna for Ron’s birthday and had the best time! And this month we are headed to the States (in just over 2 weeks!). I hope to be a bit better by then (surely I will be!!) and I’m looking forward to being back in New Mexico, seeing my family and eating all of the tacos and enchiladas.

What would you tell me over coffee?

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